Cagla Aydin

Sabancı University · Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

There is a growing theoretical and empirical consensus on the central role of visual imagery in autobiographical memory. However, findings from studies that explore how individual differences in visual imagery are reflected on autobiographical thinking do not present a coherent story. One reason for the mixed findings was suggested to be the treatm...

Objective: Prior work examining the role of cultural self-goals on the retrieval of early memories treated the presence of self-goals; such as autonomy or relatedness, as a binary category which has led to overlooking within-group nuances. Here, based on the idea that these goals co-exist in varying degrees in individuals, we explore the relative...

People high in depressive symptoms show probability bias: they think negative events are relatively likely, especially compared with positive events. However, their past- and future-related thinking also has other distinctive characteristics, so we wondered how independent probability bias is from these other phenomena. In two samples of Turkish st...

We examined whether perceived similarity in COVID-19 centrality (i.e., the extent to which one thinks of the pandemic as shaping current and future life) is associated with family relationship quality during the pandemic. Thinking that other family members are similar to oneself regarding the pandemic's centrality may improve the quality of family...

Speakers employ co-speech gestures when thinking and speaking; however, gesture’s role in autobiographical episodic representations is not known. Based on the gesture-for-conceptualization framework, we propose that gestures, particularly representational ones, support episodic event representations by activating existing episodic elements and caus...

Do the reasons why we think about our memories and share them with others have implications for our romantic relationship quality? In the present series of studies (total N = 1,102), we aimed to answer this question by examining whether the self (e.g., creating a stable self-image), social (e.g., connecting with others) and directive (e.g., guiding...

General Audience Summary When people recall past experiences, it serves certain psychosocial needs, such as creating a stable self-image, connecting with others, or guiding future behavior. In this study, we explored how workplace memories may serve individuals’ needs and goals and whether there are cross-cultural differences in the way they do. To...

Research findings on gender differences in visual imagery are mixed. One reason suggested to account for the inconsistent results has been the treatment of imagery as a unified construct despite the recent arguments of its multifaceted quality. In order to explore how visual imagery is related to gender, the present study differentiates between two...

Doğum sonrası depresyon, annelerin ruh sağlığını ve dolayısı ile bebeğin yaşam, beslenme ve duygusal bağlanma gibi temel ihtiyaçlarını etkileyen bir ruhsal bozukluktur. Doğum başlangıçlı tetiklenmesi dışında, tanı ölçütleri bakımından, majör depresyondan farklı olmadığı kabul edilmektedir. Bilişsel psikoloji alanındaki güncel çalışmalar, bireylerin...

Bu çalışmada, Türkçe'deki geçmiş zaman bildirme eklerinin, tümcelerin hatırlanmasına olan etkisi incelenmiştir. Gelişimsel alan yazın kapsamında, bilginin kaynağını dilde zorunlu olarak, doğrudan (-dI eki ile) ya da dolaylı olarak (-mIŞ eki ile) kodlamaya yarayan bu eklerin varlığının, zihin kuramının daha erken anlaşılmasına yol açabileceği sıklık...

Emotional load assessment of the written words has gained considerable interest in psycholinguistics, semantics, and analysis of psychophysiological and electrophysiological correlates of emotional processing. Considering the lack of a publicly available database with affective ratings of contemporary verbal stimuli obtained from native Turkish spe...

process and further give rise to cultural differences in FBM. In particular, means of information transmission across cultures, including newly developed communication technologies, may introduce variations in how and what types of public event news individuals receive. Cultural variables may further operate on the individual processes of perceivin...

Language development is driven by multiple factors involving both the individual child and the environments that surround the child. The chapters in this volume highlight several such factors as potential contributors to developmental change, including factors that examine the role of immediate social environment (i.e., parent SES, parent and sibli...

Computer-assisted navigation systems coupled with surgical interfaces (SIs) are providing doctors with tools that are safer for patients compared to traditional methods. Usability analysis of the SIs that guides their development is hence important. In this study, we record the eye movements of doctors and other people with no medical expertise dur...

In two pilot studies, we investigate the possibility that patterns in our linguistic environment affect the likelihood of accepting misinformation. Turkish, which marks its verbs for the source of a speaker's evidence (first-hand perception vs. hearsay), was contrasted with English which does not mark its verbs but which, to signal strength of evid...

We investigated the development of dual-retrieval processes with a low-burden paradigm that is suitable for research with children and neurocognitively impaired populations (e.g., older adults with mild cognitive impairment or dementia). Rich quantitative information can be obtained about recollection, reconstruction, and familiarity judgment by de...

Cognitive theories suggest that individuals often ignore information of no personal relevance, while attending to and remembering information important to them. Will this tendency become more salient in a context of culturally sustained egocentrism and self-focus, influencing how individuals perceive and retain information beyond immediate personal...

Flashbulb memory (FBM) refers to the vivid memory for the context of learning about a public news event. Past research has identified a number of factors that influence the formation of FBM, such as the importance of the event, the experience of intense emotions, and the amount of post-event rehearsal. Although such factors may be universal in pred...

Disjunction fallacies have been extensively studied in probability judgment. They should also occur in episodic memory, if remembering a cue's episodic state depends on how its state is described on a memory test (e.g., being described as a target vs. as a distractor). If memory is description-dependent, cues will be remembered as occupying logical...

Recent research suggests that acquisition of mental-state language may influence conceptual development. We examine this possibility by investigating the conceptual links between evidentiality in language and suggestibility. Young children are disproportionately suggestible and tend to change their reports or memories when questioned. The authors d...